Past Additions -- 1999

Photos taken yesterday, of freight cars in the Schiller Park and Bensenville yards, Metra locomotives, the Bensenville and Franklin Park stations, and a Milwaukee Road display caboose in Franklin Park.

Canadian Pacific 522528 Piggy-back trailer flat car on a lead to the locomotive shop that would seem to have become a RIP track. CP 522528, CP, Pig flat cars, Freight cars, photographed on 1 October 1999 at Bensenville locomotive yard by Harold A. Driscoll using a Sony Mavica MVC-FD88 digital camera [railfan/1999/10/99a01861.jpg] NEW 2 October 1999 This image size is ( 1200 x 700; 168 KB ). A smaller image ( 600 x 350; 48 KB ) is also available.

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Equipment characteristics of CP 522528: AAR car type P482 (conventional intermodal car), plate type B, tare weight 37,700 pounds, total gross weight allowed 177,000 pounds, load limit 139,300 pounds, external dimensions (length 49' 4", width 10' 3", height 8' 6"), internal dimensions (length 46' 0", width 8' 5". [courtesy of BNSF Equiptment Characteristics, October 1999]

Railcar fleet details for CP 522528: Conventional Intermodal Car, Mechanical Designation: FC; Outside Length: 49 ft 4 in; AAR Car Type Code: P482; Outside Extreme Width: 10 ft 3 in; Outside Extreme Height: 8 ft 6 in; Height of Extreme Width: 3 ft 6 in; Plate Clearance: B; Draft Gear: 88; Tare Weight: 37,700 lbs.; Rate per Hour: 0.32; Rate per Mile: 0.031. [courtesy of CSXT Railcar Fleet Details, November 1999]

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